Release Notes - March 2022

New & Improved

This WorksOS release includes these new features and enhancements:

Activities

  • Create activities - WorksOS now includes a new, project-wide method for quantifying earthwork-related calculations. Using activities, members of a project have a way to understand progress made on earthwork volumes based on a surveyed surface, design, and start/end dates.

    Set target dates to calculate a % complete based on the overall work that is done based on the original quantity you specify. This new feature better matches the way you estimate, bid, and track the execution of jobs. You could do this more manually in previous releases of WorksOS, but activities make it easier by matching your existing workflows.

    To configure activities, you must have a design and one or more surveyed surfaces (.ttm, primarily from Trimble Business Center, SCS900, or Siteworks). In an activity, you can opt to track areas on the site (such as cut vs. fill) or phases (such as overburden stripping and unusable material removal).

    When setting up activities, you can also specify a cost code for each. Entering codes is optional, but beneficial if you want to tie the estimation (when using Trimble Viewpoint or Trimble Quest, for example) and scheduling (using Tilos, Primavera P6, or Microsoft Project, for example) to your WorksOS project. Cost codes are also used in the field when work is bid, executed, and completed.

  • See progress on the Activity Dashboard - For any project that includes activities, there is a new default Activity Dashboard you can use to review these widgets:

    • % Complete

    • Work remaining

    • Cut/Fill Map

    • Target vs. Actual Working Rate

    Click the % Complete progress bar to open the cut/fill Map view of the selected activity area. Draw a profile through the activity area to see the progress of work based on different surveyed surfaces versus the design.

  • Edit activities - Return to the Activities page to edit the areas and/or dates specified for an activity at any time. You can also end an activity if it is completed early, the quantity does not reach 100% or if it is intended to leave a quantity remaining for future use.

Surveyed Surfaces

  • Include surveyed surfaces for better calculations - The power of WorksOS lies in the composite surface created between the machine, drone survey, and topographic survey data in your project. This surface model is also a differentiator in what WorksOS does compared to other competitive software that does not combine these.

    Previously in WorksOS, any filter that was automatically applied (except date range, design boundary, custom area and alignment) excluded surveyed surface data; filters only applied to machine data. Surveyed surface data was removed automatically and the resulting calculation did not always meet expectations. Additional filtering was required to set up the desired calculation and uniquely define each surface for comparison in volume calculations. Calculations previously made using the following filters now have more accurate results:

    • Machine Name

    • Machine Design

    • Elevation

    • Lift Number

    • Vibe State

    • Machine Direction

    • Pass Count

    • Temperature Range

    • Automatics

Examples

  • Behavior before the change: An incomplete calculation and visual made using only machine production data

  • Enhanced behavior after the change: A complete cut/fill map with a full calculation that leverages all data

  • Before and After Side by Side

Benefits of including surveyed surface data in calculations

  • Coverage of the calculated area includes surveyed data areas.

  • Surface exports (.ttm) provide a complete composite surface.

  • Machine volume calculations use survey imports as a starting surface elevation by default.

  • Simplified logic does not change based on selected filters; the surveyed surface elevation is used within all filter combinations, along with machine elevations.

  • Trimble Business Center data is better as the surface data is merged based on date range in WorksOS without the need for manual manipulation in TBC.

Notes

  • Previously calculated quantities within old reports may not match new calculations.

  • Survey data can be removed by deleting the imported file.

  • Survey data can be removed by toggling off the import.

  • The Map and Profile views reflect the new logic within visualizations.

  • Overlapping machine working areas give quantities for the last elevation from the machine/survey as this is not divided by a single machine but based on elevation history.

  • To exclude survey elevations from volume or elevation metrics, you must disable the surveyed surfaces or delete them from imported data.

  • To view machine only data, use the pass count views and other compaction or machine-only metrics.

  • The composite surface is visible by default within the Profile view for pass counts, but can be disabled to highlight machine-only data.

  • Including surveyed surfaces will continue to be optional (although recommended) within WorksOS.

Coordinate Systems

  • Use the Trimble Geodetic Library - WorksOS now supports the Trimble Geodetic Library (TGL) for published coordinate system definitions that have been added to the library. This means that published shift grids and geoids contained within the TGL can have their respective coordinate system definitions assigned to projects in WorksOS. All project data should display and project correctly within the project boundary.

NOTE: This feature does not include custom coordinate system definitions that are not part of TGL; using these will impact project data accuracy and positioning.

Fixed

WorksOS also deployed fixes for reported or discovered cases in which:

  • There are no critical bug fixes to mention for this release.